Fifteen new members named to UNMC Board of Counselors

Fifteen new members have been named to the University of Nebraska Medical

Center’s Board of Counselors.

The Board of Counselors consists of community and business leaders from

the state of Nebraska who serve in an advisory capacity to the Medical

Center and Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D. The board, which currently

includes 56 members, meets three times per year and is provided with a

variety of presentations at each meeting designed to help members learn

more about UNMC.

The 15 new members are listed below by their hometowns:

AURORA — Jason Schneider, dental sales consultant;

BELLEVUE — John Barrientos, Allstate Insurance agent, Barrientos Consulting,

Omaha;

HASTINGS — Jan Scherr, nurse coordinator, Hastings Public Schools;

HOLDREGE — Roy Pearson, retired owner, K.K. Appliance Company;

NORTH PLATTE — Rick Kolkman, president, First National Bank of North

Platte; Cindy Way, pharmacist, Great Plains Regional Medical Center;

OMAHA — Lynn Grant, Elkhorn Valley Meat Packing Company, Dodge, Neb.;

Larry Kavich, CEO, All Makes Furniture; Belinda Malone, president, Indian

Hill Neighborhood Association; Randall Palandri, president, Savage and

Palandri Architects; Cynthia Peacock, president, Methodist Hospital Foundation;

Carole Woods Harris, Douglas County Commission; Tracy Zaiss, president

and owner, Zaiss and Company;

POTTER — Linda Shoemaker, vice president, patient care services, interim

CEO, Memorial Health Center, Sidney, Neb.;

WINNEBAGO — Ann Downes, president, Little Priest Tribal College.

At the most recent meeting on the UNMC campus, Omaha’s N.P. “Sandy”

Dodge, Jr., was installed as chairman and Kathy Campbell of Lincoln began

a term as vice chairwoman.

Dodge, who joined the Board of Counselors in Jan. 2000, is president

and chairman of the board of N.P. Dodge Real Estate Company, while also

serving as chairman of the Omaha Public Power District board of directors

and director of American States Water Company and Bridges Investment Council.

Campbell, who has been on the Board of Counselors since April 2002, recently

retired her position on the Lancaster County Board.

The Board of Counselors’ next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct.

15 in Lincoln.